Issues
October 2025: AI and the Future of Work
AI and the Future of Work | Purposeful, Dignified, and Fair Work | Gig Work and the Platform Economy | Windows onto Women’s Work and AI
July 2025
A Time to Die? | Religious Reasons to Support a Change | ‘I Wouldn’t Want to Live Like That’: Ableism, Autonomy, and the Ethical Contours of Legislating for Assisted Dying | A Matter of Life and Death | Why ‘Assisted Death’ Should be Opposed | Notes on the Nicene Creed in its 1700th Year
April 2025: Past History, Present Dilemmas
Climate Failure: an apocalyptic era | Review Essay: Reparations and Reckoning | Re-visioning our Cities: Sheppard and Schumacher 50 years on | Joy in a Time of Crisis: ‘For the Darkness and the Light are Both Alike to God’ | Less Hegel, More History! Christian Ethics and Political Realities | David Nicholls: Profile of a Political Priest
January 2025: The Common Good
The Common Good | Faith-filled Organising: A Decade of Change | Edmund Burke’s ‘commonwealth: an alternative modernity | The Limits of the Common Good | From Coming Home to the Common Good: the housing crisis and the Church of England | A personal discovery of the common good | Public standards have fallen far enough - the remoralisation of politics is overdue
October 2024: Church and State
An Irresolvable Bond | Should we have a Minister for Religious Affairs? | The Byzantine Theory of Symphonia | New Giants: Church, Welfare and Future | Critical Solidarity - Church and Government | In Parliament, 2019-2024 | Extra Article: Commissions, Reports and Authority: A Response to Graham James
July 2024: Simpler, humbler, bolder? Smaller church theology
Simpler, Humbler, Bolder? Smaller Church Theology | Frail Faithfulness: A reflection on the life and liturgy of an Anglican Religious Community | The Challenge and Gift of being a Smaller Church | Assessing Risk or Fearing Failure? | Sadness and Space to Breathe | Simpler, Humbler, Bolder? | Be Joyful - Keep the Faith - Do the Little Things
April 2024: Christian Social Responsibility Then and Now
Christian Social Responsibility Then and Now | The Future: Community Organising and Churches | Church Social Responsibility in the South West of England Over the Last Four Decades | Industrial Mission: Legacy and Impact | The Authority of Commissions and Reports | Re-enabling the parish
January 2024: Radical Theology in the Melting Pot
Into the Melting | David Jenkins and power | Being a gospel community in Stoke Newington | Tending the vines of faith: new wine in old wineskins? | To live in the present, imagine the future | R.H.Tawney, Equality and the NHS at 75
July 2023: Live Issues: Christology - Virtues Realism - Place
Provisions for the Journey: Nourishment or Navigation? | Christological Soundings on Being Human | Virtue Ethics in an age of social media | Anglican Christian Realism | A Feminist Theology of Place ‘In Her Own Words’ | Peace, justice and joy: towards a green economy | Sabbath, psalms and eucharist
October 2023: Seeking Peace under Clouds of War
Seeking Peace Under Clouds of War | Cold War Two: and the question of deterrence | Rebooting Military Ethics from Moral Injury | A Public Theological Interrogation of Peace | Ukraine’s Agency | Faith in Action: Churches ‘learning by
doing’ in Manchester
April 2023: The Church and Consumer Culture
A City Full of Idols? Being Church in a Consumer Society | Buying God? | But Can I Buy It? Christian Perspectives on Luxury Goods | Labours of Love: An Augustinian Response to Consumerism | Advertising, the Consumer Society and the Church | ‘If you want it, you need it’: Is consumerism something to resist or welcome in our churches?
January 2023: Faith in an Internet Age
Editorial: Faith in an Internet Age | Seeing through News Bias: Bringing a Christian Perspective | Digital Being | This is Still the Day | The Modern Myth of Impartiality: What the BBC and the Church of England Might Share in Common | Forum: Professionals at work: a study in Ordinary Theology | Book Reviews
October 2022: The Privilege of Hope: Attending to Despair
Learning to Hear Justly: Rupturing the Dominion of Force through Attention | Making Nothing Happen: Social Reproduction and the Poetics of the Church | Culture of Despair: Black Nihilism and Spiritual Hope | Countering the Ethics of Peddling Hope | Can an Established Church Exercise Moral Leadership in a Non-Churchgoing Age?
July 2022: Beveridge at 80: Welfare Revisited
William Temple and the William Beveridge Report | Giants, Gods and Goods: Toward a ‘new Beveridge’ | Volunteerism in a post-COVID Society | Welfare In the Wake of Austerity | A Worshipping Body, not a Body of Worshippers | Lady Helen Oppenheimer
April 2022: Theology: Crisis or Opportunity?
The Future of Theological Studies as an Academic Discipline | Give us Healing Balm: Decolonising Theology Through African Caribbean Eyes | Stephen Pattison interviewed by James Woodward | Building Back Better: A Tale of Two Visions

